Note: This is a guest post from Ryan Murdock and Adam Steer, the BodyweightCoach.com experts.
While a six-pack stomach may be the most conventional benchmark of athletic beauty, functional abdominal strength goes deeper and is far more important than vanity. A strong core improves your posture and reduces the likelihood of lower back pain. It plays a stabilizing role in virtually every movement you do—from carrying the groceries or bending down to tie your shoes to throwing a ball or pulling a heavy lift. It is also the source of power generation in most athletic activities.
We’re going to build a killer core with bodyweight exercise, in as little as 12-minutes per session.
How?
By training in 6 degrees of freedom.
Training in 6-Degrees of Freedom
What the heck does that mean?
It’s a term we took from aviation, because it most accurately describes how your body moves through space.
We don’t move robotically through one plane at a time. Human movement is a complex weave through different planes and on different axes. If we take the three axes of conventional movement descriptions, we can think about moving both along and around those axes in order to take advantage of our true movement potential.
CST 6 Degrees of Freedom
• Heaving: moving up and down
• Swaying: moving right and left
• Surging: moving forward and backward
• Pitching: bending forward and backward
• Yawing: twisting right and left
• Rolling: bending or tilting right and left
The bottom line?
Training in 6-Degrees of Freedom will kick your butt faster than any other method.
Why does that matter? It means you’ll be finished training sooner. Training in 6-Degrees will also ensure that your body remains balanced. You won’t waste time dealing with overuse injuries, or overcompensations created by doing the same repetitive movements in the same planes day after day.
That’s a brief primer on the theory. Let’s get to the program.
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